“I am an African-American in the IT field and I have thus far had the good fortune to live and travel extensively throughout Western and parts of Eastern Europe and many countries in  Asia. I have lived or traveled in the UK and most of the EU countries as well as Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and several other Asian countries including India.

Of all the countries I have been to, India ranks way up there among the most ‘racist’, IMHO. Indians aren’t so much ‘racist’ as they are intolerant. Indians discriminate against fellow citizens to a degree that I have NEVER encountered in ANY other country. Without a doubt, Indians are the the most color obsessed people I have ever encountered anywhere in the world. No doubt because of all that saturation advertisements for ‘Fair and Lovely’, ‘Fair and Handsome’ and all manners of skin-whitening creams, lotions, soaps etc. Even if you are 100% Indian, your fellow Indians might still discriminate against you on the basis of the color of your skin, which region of India you come from, what language you speak, your religion, your caste etc, etc.

http://bodahub.com/american-says-india-most-racist/

Talk about some sorry bastards…

Last week’s indictment also accuses Richard Tinimbang of submitting fraudulent forms to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security so that a Filipino woman could legally work in the country. He claimed in a form that the woman would be hired as a business analyst at Josdan and she would therefore be qualified for an H-1B visa, but when she arrived in the U.S., she went to work full-time as a nanny and housekeeper for the couple and others.

Richard and Maribel Tinimbang also tried to get the woman to sign a seven-year “servitude contract,” indicating she would be paid $66 per day, regardless of the number of hours worked, prosecutors said. The contract also stated that if the woman quit before the seven years were over, she would be required to pay $25,000 in damages.

They also threatened to send her back to the Philippines without being paid if she didn’t surrender her passport and sign the contract, prosecutors said.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/couple-accused-of-45m-medicare-fraud-forced-labor/

Establishment Republicans refuse to compromise on the issues of trade and immigration, preferring instead to ridicule working-class Americans as “meth-heads, horrible fathers, angry, stupid crackers,” LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said Tuesday.

Speaking on her radio show, Ingraham said it was an “interesting way of trying to cultivate your base and grow your base,” pointing to disparaging characterizations of ordinary people made on the pages of Establishment media outlets like the National Review.

“When it was obvious we needed to re-examine these policies … the politicians and their big-donor base said said, ‘We aren’t changing our views on these global trade deals; we aren’t changing our views on the deindustrialization,’” she said. “‘We’re not changing our views on bringing in more of these so-called H-1B visa holders or more foreign workers or bringing in the families or allowing the borders to be porous. We’re not changing our views on any of that, because for us, the status quo works quite well.’”

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/ingraham-establishment-casts-aside-working-americans/

The large portion of us Displaced Americans are decent god fearing people.

We did not send our jobs overseas.

We did not import NON immigrant guest workers to take the remaining jobs here at home.

You need to think about that the next time you vote for a Republican or a Democrat.

Because if we keep on this path, it will happen to your family sooner rather than later.

American Apparel has notified about 500 workers out of the 4,300 it employs in Southern Californiathat they are subject to layoff, says Nativo Lopez, a longtime activist who describes himself as unofficial adviser to the General Brotherhood of Workers of American Apparel. “The first notices of layoffs began last Wednesday,” Lopez says.

There was no immediate comment from a company spokesman.

Los Angeles-based American Apparel is known for its edgy, sexy advertising campaigns and its devotion to American manufacturing. The company took steps to cut its debt while undergoing its bankruptcy reorganization. A judge approved its restructuring program in January. Several hedge funds, including Standard General and Monarch Capital, are believed to have added capital and taken control of American Apparel during bankruptcy proceedings.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/04/12/american-apparel-laying-off-500-workers/82958406/

Same here…

My friend and co-author of “Sold Out,”programmer-turned-lawyer-John Miano, and I will be there to pay our respects not only to the Abbott workers, but also to pay tribute to the thousands of best and brightest IT workers and engineers whose identical plights we spotlighted in our book—along with the many brave whistleblowers John has represented as founder of the Programmers Guild and attorney for tech workers suing over bipartisan executive expansions of sovereignty-undermining guest worker visa programs.

For decades now, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Silicon Valley lobbyists have dominated Capitol Hill and public debate with their fraudulent claims that there’s a U.S. tech worker shortage and that wage-suppressing H-1B visas “create jobs.” (I dare Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Eric Schmidt to come to Chicago and tell it to our faces.)

The good news: A long-brewing perfect storm—created in part by the rise of Donald Trump, the fall of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, high-profile layoffs at Disney, Southern California Edison and Abbott, and transcendent disgust with the immigration expansionist gravy train—has changed the equation for U.S. workers.

Ignored by Washington, fed-up citizens like Sara Blackwell and John Miano are representing the invisible victims of H-1B and the rest of the cheap labor pipeline in court. Even better, they’re entering the political arena themselves. Blackwell last week launched a bold congressional bid in Florida’s House District 72.  And you can bet there will be many more like her, inspired to do the job that too many American politicians refuse to do:

Protect American workers and put America first.

http://www.vdare.com/articles/american-workers-matter-a-chicago-wake-and-wake-up-call

April 22 is the last day of work for nearly 200 American workers at Abbott Laboratories, the pharmaceutical giantfounded by Chicago doctorWallace C. Abbott in 1888. The company sacked some of its most high-skilled workers in February to make way for H-1B and L-1 visa replacements from Indian offshore outsourcing firm Wipro.

One Abbott worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, told me: “We were given an agreement which basically says that in order to get compensation you must sign away your rights to sue or disparage the company. I have 3 small children and a wife to provide for—I have nowhere to go because of the H1-B visa loopholes” that “every major company” is exploiting.

Intimidation. Layoffs. “Dig your own grave” severance agreements contingent ontraining foreign replacements before getting the boot on 60 days’ notice. Promises from Washington to “end H-1B abuse” that is entirely legal because it was baked into the gargantuan immigration law cake crafted by self-serving lobbyists for Big Business working on both sides of the political aisle.

Sara Blackwell (right)  a Florida lawyer and mom of three, knows this pattern well. She’s representing American tech workers at Disney who suffered the same fate and are fighting back with a lawsuit against the entertainment conglomerate and its Indian offshore outsourcing conspirators, HCL and Cognizant. It was Blackwell’s brilliant idea to hold a memorial for the terminated Abbott workers.

She’s inviting the pink-slipped Abbott casualties’ colleagues, families, friends, supporters, other compatriots “affected by the outsourcing or offshoring of American jobs,” and, Blackwell urges, anyone else across the country “who cares about the American worker and the future of America.”

http://www.vdare.com/articles/american-workers-matter-a-chicago-wake-and-wake-up-call

Wish I could be there, but after five years of unemployment, I will be starting my second full time job that week so that I can try and get on my feet.

80 hours per week to make half of what I was making if I could get back to work.

And the idiots doing this to us in Corporate America say that we won’t work.

Bastards.

Yet they will not hire the legions of senior level IT types like myself, Art, Kumar, and others.

Why is that?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3055028/it-careers/us-gets-236000-h-1b-petitions-a-new-record.html

Can anybody tell me how many of these 500 positions are filled by Americans?

Tel Ganesan’s enthusiasm is infectious. As the founder and CEO of Kyyba, a Detroit-area software, automotive electronics, and telematics staffing firm, Tel provides over 500 jobs and generates $40 million of revenues on an annual basis. “All I wanted to do when I came to this country was to pursue the American dream,” Tel has said. In addition to his own business, Tel is a Board Member for Global Detroit and the Board Chair for TiE Detroit, a local entrepreneurship network connected to TiE Global, the world’s largest entrepreneurship network with roots in Silicon Valley started by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.

https://ceosforcities.org/immigrant-impact/

Firas Majeed and Shatha Abbas moved to California from Dubai just over two years ago, prosecutors say. A short time after they immigrated, the husband and wife also allegedly brought over an Indonesian domestic servant, identified in court documents only as W.M. The woman spoke no English and was only able to escape by slipping a nurse a plea for help in her native language.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided the home on March 22 and removed the woman.

The couple’s “scheme intended to cause the victim to believe that she would suffer physical restraint if she did not perform labor and services,” the government said in a press release. The duo allegedly also hid the domestic worker’s passport and restricted her ability to travel.

Social media accounts belonging to the couple show Majeed is originally from Iraq. His LinkedIn page says he’s worked for the last two-and-a-half years as a construction supervisor, and worked before that in Dubai. Calls to his employerwere not returned.

http://www.vdare.com/posts/san-diego-couple-enslaved-their-maid-is-a-lie-why-not-iraqi-couple-enslaved-san-diego-woman